Hackers Now Tricking Users With Fake Address Bars On Chrome

Hackers now take the aid of another and a rather refined phishing attack on Android Chrome only so to shroud the original address bar's screen space by showing its very own fake URL bar when the user scrolls down the site's page.

The fake address bar that relates with the phishing website page posed with real webpage URL by intercepting the original chrome bar. Typically, when users scroll down the site's page, the browser shrouds the URL bar and the page covers overlaps on it in light of the fact that the page is accessible to by means of a "trustworthy browser UI".

Here, the phishing site manhandles this procedure by displaying its very own fake URL bar that acted like an authentic one and trapped users to give away their own personal information.

Security researcher James Fisher exhibited this phishing attack by facilitating his own domain (jameshfisher.com), as he exploited the blemish in chrome browser for mobile.

Fisher used the HSBC domain (www.hsbc.com) as a fake URL bar to proceed with the said demonstrationand by utilizing a similar way the attackers resort to when they utilize any legitimate site, intercept the URL bar and steal the information.

Specialist call it as "scroll jail", when this attack gets even worse for wear, for the most part when the users look up the site page however again reach the first URL bar, here the attackers trap the users to never return on the original URL bar.

According to Fisher, the attack resembles in a dream in inception, the user believes that they're in their own browser, yet they're actually in a browser inside their browser.

“Is this a serious security flaw? Well, even I, as the creator of the inception bar, found myself accidentally using it! So I can imagine this technique fooling users who are less aware of it, and who are less technically literate. The only time the user has the opportunity to verify the true URL is on page load, before scrolling the page. After that, there’s not much escape”, says Fisher, who is also of the believe that it might be a security flaw in Chrome browser causing the commotion.